Fantastic Mr. Fox

Criminal Minds' Matthew Gray Gubler on Directing Prentiss' Exit: I Put Up a Big Fight for It

Matthew Gray Gubler is usually known as "Gube," but he had a different nickname while directing this week's Criminal Minds."Someone started calling me Michael Bay Gubler because there's so much action in this one," he tells TVGuide.com "I know so little about action films that it's kind of funny."Check out photos from Criminal MindsIndeed, the actor and NYU film grad specializes in the creepy and quirky — just check out his artwork — so quirky that his crash course in action films included The Fantastic Mr. Fox. "That was my main inspiration," he says with a laugh. "And some Sherlock Holmes. I tried to study and made sure the moments of action were done as effectively and cinematically as possible. Especially for our show, which normally [features] more of a knife or a slow strangulation, we're talking flash ...